Mike Huckabee: Chick-fil-A hasn't changed

Dismissing reports the company had changed its stance on gay marriage under pressure, Chick-fil-A has not altered its “practices and priorities,” nor has it made any “concessions” to convince a Chicago alderman to back down from his effort to block a new restaurant, Mike Huckabee said Friday as he posted a statement given to him by the fast-food chain.

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“There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restaurant in Chicago. That is incorrect,” the fast-food chain’s statement read, according to the former Arkansas governor. “Chick-fil-A made no such concessions, and we remain true to who we are and who we have been.”

Huckabee noted on his website that he “talked earlier today personally with Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick Fil-A about the new reports that Chick Fil-A had capitulated to demands of the supporters of same sex marriage. This is not true. The company continues to focus on the fair treatment of all of its customers and employees, but to end confusion gave me this statement.”

Chick-fil-A did not respond to requests for comment from POLITICO.

Chicago alderman Proco “Joe” Moreno on Wednesday told The Chicago Tribune the fast-food chain agreed that it would not contribute to groups that oppose same-sex marriage and would give all employees an internal document including a statement of respect for all people, regardless of backgrounds. Moreno said he would therefore allow the company to open a shop in his ward.

The fast-food chain on Wednesday released a statement to POLITICO in response to Moreno’s account, saying “the Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect –regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender,” later adding that “going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”

Good for Chick-fil-A to be the same as they have always been to their employees and their customers and sounds like it is moreno with a problem and not Chick-fil-A. Our family and friends have been long time customers because of the service, quality of food and quantity of the food.

This is really the most outstanding unintentionally hilarious headline. I wish the right wing had the ability to see themselves in the mirror. Wow. "Honestly folks, it's the same homo-phobic antibiotic cage-raised chicken you hillbillies have come to know and love your whole faith-based lives!!! Support Chick-Fil-A!!! Keep homos from a-courtin'!!! Idiots.

How are the callouses on your knuckles treating you from dragging to-and-from your cave to pony? Jesus man, you really think of people that way? Can you please transport yourself to 1963 Alabama and stay there? Somebody needs to take away your right to vote as you're clearly not qualified to be an American citizen.

Mike, yelling louder will not make your point a reality, as stated, this IS the reality. "The fast-food chain agreed that it would not contribute to groups that oppose same-sex marriage and would give all employees an internal document including a statement of respect for all people, regardless of backgrounds."

What Barack Obama has unleashed on America is absolutely shameful and disgraceful. And I resent that Obama has failed to accept the traditional man-woman marriage as the best course for America. As I recall it, Obama elevated homosexual issues in all of his State of the Union speeches, and it's all too apparent by his words and actions that he has pandered to the GLBT advocates and appointed hundreds of homosexual activists to an array of Federal agencies, the United States military, and his own White House staff. Almost all of these people are Left-wing activists and agitators, just like Obama was when he was a little-known "community organizer" in Chicago.

It is admirable that Chick-Fil-A has traditional-minded people running the very successful food chain. Sales are actually way up, not down 30% as one poster wrote. End the national nightmare: on Tuesday, November 6th, Vote for Mitt Romney for President and for the Republicans. Then there will be some possibility that most of these disastrous policies will be repealed or reversed, by Executive Order if necessary. And, no more indoctrination and month-long gay pride proclamations and celebrations or mandated pro-homosexual policies, rammed through by Left-wing political hacks and career government bureaucrats, in the military or any of the other agencies, bureaus and departments of the vast Federal bureaucracy.

I read the earlier claim by Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno that Chick-fil-A had changed its policy. I trust that the information given to Mike Huckabee that the policy remains the same as before is the correct position.

The homosexual movement and their supporters have intimidated, bullied and misrepresented much in recent decades in their pursuit to silence or compromise all resistance to their life style. One of their first major propaganda victories was in 1973 when they through brute politics intimidated the American Psychiatric Association into taking homosexuality off their list of disorders. Since then, despite the homosexual bathhouse scandals, the spread of AIDS and the shameless actions of the homosexual movement, they have pushed their threats and propaganda upon the entertainment industry, corporations, education, government, political entities and liberal religious groups. The Democrat party bows to both them and the abortion industry.

It is past time for a renewal of commonsense moral and cultural standards, including that of the heterosexual population, or this country will certainly and deservedly fall from within.

It is your party and your Democrat president, Mykl, that has courted the Muslim vote and has shown even their rioters around the Mideast more apologies and sympathy than is shown to Christians in the United States who are peacefully attempting to maintain their religious freedom from an increasing oppressive leftist government in our own country.